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Hi Mark, Sorry to have taken so long to respond to your question ... > I am trying to build netCDF 4.1.1 on AIX > > I managed to build & install netCDF 3.6.3 and then built HDF5 > 1.8.5-patch1, all with no problems, once I'd ensured that the make > files were being processed by GNU make, that no other GNU tools > were getting involved, and that OBJECT_MODE was set to 64. > > The configure command is > > export OBJECT_MODE=64 > > CC=xlc_r FC=xlf_r F90=xlf95_r ./configure --enable-netcdf-4 > --disable-dap --with-hdf5=/home/hadfield/local/AIX-00CD7D244C00 > --prefix=/home/hadfield/local/AIX-00CD7D244C00 > > Output was saved to config.out, which is attached. Yes, that was a bug fixed in the beta release, as you discovered. > I tried again with 4.1.2-beta1. Make now runs to completion, but > make check fails 35 of 54 tests. The output of make check is > attached. Each of the failures also produces a memory fault > message like the following to stderr: > > /bin/sh: 193208 Memory fault The fact that the first failed test is a test of handling attributes in the HDF5 library seems to point to a problem with the installed HDF5-patch1 library: > *** Checking HDF5 file functions some more. > *** Checking opaque attribute creation...ok. > *** Tests successful! > PASS: tst_h_files2 > FAIL: tst_h_atts After installing HDF5-patch1, did "make check" for the HDF5 build run successfully? --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RTE-131011 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Urgent Status: Closed